Quizzes for children, teenagers and adults.

INTRODUCTION

Hello. In this blog entry, Deysi and I are going to present different ways on how we can use videos, stories, and different internet sources. In this project, we have made used of a website to prepare quizzes, so the idea is to come up with different internet tools, so students can practice their understanding of English.

This first quiz is addresed to children. This reading is about a lady who swallowed many animals. She followed a chain in order to catch the first animal she swallowed.

https://voicethread.com/?#q.b2735446.i14434763 (IN THIS LINK, YOU WILL HAVE ACCESS TO THE READING, SO CLICK ON THE LINK, BUT IF YOU HAVE PROBLEMS TO VIEW THE READING YOU CAN TYPE THIS USER alexjandro26@hotmail.com AND PASSWORD: alejandrito)

In this quiz, you will have 12 questions. Each of them have three options, so click on the one that best matches each request.

http://www.youthink.com/quiz.cfm?action=go_detail&sub_action=take&obj_id=208184&filter=my_qs&f_cat_id=-1&time_spa

SECOND QUIZ

This second quiz is based on a musical video in which teenager students are going to put into practice their visual and memory skills since they need to be pretty good observers to answer correctly all quiz´s questions.

The video is about a guy who is in love with a girl that he hasn´t met yet.

This is the musical video´s link, We hope you enjoy it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KYEev_3L6k&feature=related

Right after watching the video three times, go to the quiz´s link in which you are going to find a multiple option quiz that only has 12 questions and 3 options. Please click on the best option for each statement.

This is the quiz´s link: http://www.youthink.com/quiz.cfm?obj_id=208687

THE LAST QUIZ is for adults. They have to see a video from youtube. The video is about global warning and some other aspects related to it, so after watching the video (link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJAbATJCugs), you have to go this link

http://www.youthink.com/quiz.cfm?action=go_detail&sub_action=take&obj_id=208360&filter=my_qs&f_cat_id=-1&time_span=all

and take the quiz which has 12 questions with three options each; be sure to click on the one that best matches each request.

CONCLUSION: we think that as society is changing day by day, and the use of technology is becoming a need for teachers and for students as well, these tools we have used to prepare our quizzes are very nice because students are in touch with different internet tools that some of them might be familiar with, so that it will be even easier for them to use.

At the very beginning, we felt kind of weird because we are not accustomed to use these tools, but since we got involveld with them, they were easy to use.

Something that might be considered as a disadvantage is that when we are not accustomed to use these tools, they seem to be time-consuming.

my computer skills.

hello, to have computer skills have become part of our daily life, that´s why nowadays we can see that many people are learning on how to use computers and the internet as well, but the question is why??? well, there are many reasons we can talk about, but in this entry we are going to talk about a simple one, companies require people who know how to use the computers and the internet as well, so that people have started to think seriously on this issue, and that´s why we can see how the amount of people studying about this has increased a lot.

I have to say and be clear on some aspects; first of all, it is not just to know on how to use the computer, but to have computer skills, so that you are the most suit person for applying a job. To have computer skills is very complex because it means that you have to be updated with programs you may use in your job; you need to know what this or that buttom may works for, or how can you get easier to a menu or any function that can help you to do things faster. etc.You also have to be able to use the internet, distinguish for example what information is more relevant or essential than the other one because let me tell you that on internet as you must know, you will find information that is not reliable, so that you have to be able to make those differences, so if we talk about reliable information, we have to say that you gotta be able to identify those sites that are reliable as well. It may not seen to be easy, but as you start getting acquainted, you will see that it is kind of easy and you will become an expert on this issue.

Now let´s move on on this other part, having computer skills as I said before can be kind of hard for some people as for others can be the opposite, I mean, easy. I think that everything will depend on the efforts and wishes that you have to learn.
There are some things that I consider useful for your learning on this, and it is that if we wish to learn, we also have to be kind of curious to find out for example on what this key may work for, or what can I do or application I can get into if I click on this menu, etc (you can do this if you are working on your own computer of course, otherwise, you can get into troubles if you are using computers on a cyber cafe or any other place).
So, whenever you have the chance to study about computer and the use of technology, do not doubt on asking your instructor for more information regarded with what you are learning as it will help you to become more expert on what we have been discussiong about; of course this world of technology is very complex and even thought when we think we have learned enough, there will be something new to learn every day.

So as a conclusion, I can say that we have to start becoming aware on what we can do right now, and what we can improve related with the use of computer and the internet because let me say that, I do not know you but sometimes there are children that know more about this issue than yourself, so we have to become more acquainted with this as it is taken or being part of our lives.
We can see how the use of technology is improving day by day, and it means that people need to be updated with all those changes. There are new things to learn, and what is our way? to follow them othewise we are going to be kind of lost. why do I say this? it is because as I said before technology is improving, so the new model of computers, programs, etc, are changing, and we have to be involved in those changes, I mean, we have to be like following the new updates of all what we have been discussing about.
So guys, I hope that you understand what I meant by this blog, and leave your comments, so that we can learn from each others.